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• The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

  Andre Maurois

  Happiness, Being Happy, Business

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• If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.

  Dalai Lama

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Meditation, Inner Peace

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2017). “The Dalai Lama’s Book of Transformation”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

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• The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

  Confucius

  Spiritual, Yoga, Men

  "Out of the Blue: Delight Comes Into Our Lives". Book by Mark Victor Hansen, Barbara Nichols, and Patty Hansen, 1996.

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• Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

  Rene Descartes

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Attitude

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• In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Inspirational, Teaching, Imagination

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Meditation, Soul, Wandering Thoughts

  Jeremy Taylor, George Rust (1835). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: With an Essay, Biographical and Critical ...”, p.73

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• Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Mind

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• Meditation creates more time than it takes.

  Peter McWilliams

  Yoga, Meditation Practice, More Time

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.

  Swami Muktananda

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Goal

  Swami Muktananda (1999). “Meditate: Happiness Lies Within You”, Siddha Yoga Publications

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• The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. .. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Pain, Moving, Knowing

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• Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.

  Stephen Levine

  Inspiration, Live Life, Practice

  Stephen Levine (2010). “Guided Meditations, Explorations and Healings”, p.9, Anchor

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• When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

  Alan Watts

  Dance, Journey, Play

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

  George MacDonald

  Inspirational, Stress, Meditation Practice

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• Meditation gives us peace of mind without a tranquilizer. And unlike a tranquilizer, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade away. It lasts for good in some corner of the inmost recesses of our aspiring heart.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Meditation Practice, Giving

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• Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, Reading, Knowledge

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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  Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Yoga, Positive Thinking

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• When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

  Alan Watts

  Journey, Discovery, Meditation And Yoga

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

  Sivananda

  Yoga, Meditation Practice, Mind

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• Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

  Pema Chodron

  Practice, Meditation And Yoga, Trying

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Education, Teacher, Freedom

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• If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help.

  Judy Collins

  Depression, Exercise, Years

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• Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not Hugh Jackman. I'm not a dad. I'm not a husband. I'm just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.

  Hugh Jackman

  Letting Go, Buddhist, Powerful

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• If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Boiler Room

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• All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit
  is to stop seeking something more or better or different,
  and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.

  Adyashanti

  Meditation Practice, Meditation And Yoga, Silence

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• So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Light, Generosity, Dancing

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.

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